Lot n° 359
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- Lot 359
Émile Zola - Autograph letter signed to Monsieur [Tourneur Schmitz, bookseller and publisher in Charleroi].
Paris, 18 July [18]99. 2 pages in-8, in a stamped envelope (tear with missing parts, annotations on the back).
"Sir, personally, I'm very touched and flattered by the tribute you're willing to pay me, and I accept it..."
ATTACHED:
- Marie-Georges PICQUART (Strasbourg, 1854 - Amiens, 1914) - Autograph letter signed to Monsieur [Tourneur Schmitz, bookseller and publisher in Charleroi]. Paris, August 4, 1899. 2 pages in-12, under stamped envelope (tears).
- Marie-Georges PICQUART (Strasbourg, 1854 - Amiens, 1914) - Business card of Marie-Georges Picquart, Minister of War addressed to Mr Tourneur Schmitz. Under stamped envelope, bearing the dry stamp of the War Ministry.
3-piece set.
In all likelihood, these three documents relate to the Dreyfus case and testify to the movement of sympathy that has taken place here and there in Belgium in favour of the unfortunate captain accused of treason .
Indeed, around 1899, Émile Zola and Colonel Picquart - a key figure in the recognition of Alfred Dreyfus' innocence - shared the same convictions and above all the same implacable fate. For the record, on January 18, 1898, Zola published his "J'accuse" in L'Aurore while the unfortunate Picquart was condemned and imprisoned at Mont-Valérien.
In July 1898, Picquart was transferred to the Prison de la Santé and Zola was again sentenced to the Assizes.
In the first document, Émile Zola says he is "very touched" by the tribute paid to him by Mr. Tourneur-Schmitz (a Belgian "dreyfusard", so to speak).
For his part, in the second document, Colonel Picquart also thanks Mr Tourneur-Schmitz for the "souvenir as a token of sympathy" "offered to him" on behalf of the "liberals of Hainaut" (themselves also Belgian "dreyfusards").
It is understandable that he could not accept
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